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Friday Nov 20, 2009, Mission: To get to the Upper pens and catch a HOG. What a ride. We put in at the corps launch at Chief Joe Dam, and headed up river. We made the trip up to the upper pens without mishap, but it was a long ride, with a few stretches of choppy water, but otherwise perfect conditions. We usually see eagles in the lower section of the river, but today we didn't see any until we got above the lower most pens, then we saw several. Also saw some deer, hope the pic loads, that we took video of from the boat during wave action so the focus wasn't the best. It was a lil 2X3 who was asaulting the sage brush in hopes of impressing the 5 does that were paying him no attention at all. Nice to see though. On to fishing. We haven't been to the upper pens in several years, so it was a surprise to see all the work that had been done up there. New metal structures for the net pens to ride in and new barges and boats for the workers.
Everything was different from our previous visits. As we were passing the middle pens there was a vehicle with flashing blue and red lights parked down by the shoreline. Not sure if it was local law enforcement or game agents. Anyway, we went up there to cash in on the hot bite riprap101 had reported, and we weren't disappointed. As we were there we noticed fish surfacing on the pens side of the river, so we went to investigate. We used spinners, spoons, and jigs before we found what they wanted. Dark colors in the jigs were the flavor of choice today, and the fish seemed to be holding about 15-20 feet in 50-60 feet of water in that particular spot. It was a slow presentation day today to get the fish to bite. The lil Black 1/16 oz marabou jig pictured on my blog post was the downfall of several trout today. We ended up with a two person limit with 3 of the fish being between 5 and 6 pounds and the big fish for the day (Cindy's by the way) was 8# 12oz. She's still looking for that over 10 pounder. LOL
A great day on the water but will try the drive to seatons grove next time to compare the wear and tear on the ole body. Beautiful part of the country up there, and a boat ride is a great way to sight see.
Every one keep your lines tight and the hooks sharp
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